Playstation VR Discussion Thread

The Specialist wrote: »

We haven’t heard from J Mysterio yet today, his mind may have been completely blown after 30 mins down the VR rabbit hole!

Haha, sorry for the delayed response to this.



Straight off the bat, I haven't really 'come to terms' with VR yet and have to use it a bit more to have a fully developed opinion. Rambling thoughts on experience thus far below...

I played it a reasonable amount last weekend, but didn't find time to play it during the week. I found it to be quite intense initially and could only play it in bursts for about 15-20 mins before needing a break and then stretching to about 30 mins later. I didn't feel sick or nauseous, but I did feel a bit spaced out and trippy aftwerward (almost a bit high). Looking at my phone was pretty weird after a go on VR.
I worked my way through a few of the games as follows

1. The Playroom intro game
2. VR Worlds Danger Ball
3. VR Worlds VR Luge
4. VR Worlds The London Heist
5. VR Worlds Ocean Descent
6. Firewall Zero Hour
7. WipeOut VR
8. Skyrim VR

Danger ball was cool. VR Luge and the London Heist were pretty forgettable to be honest. I enjoyed the Ocean descent but it kind of felt like an experience you could have had in Trocadero in London in the late 90's at the same time.

Being honest, I expected a little more from Firewall Zero Hour, but I need to give it more time as I only played it for about 30-40 mins total so far. I found it a little challenging to find flow in my movement, but that's obviously something that will require time to learn, and I haven't played around with the settings yet. I was comparing this to Rainbow Six Siege in my mind (which it is apparently inspired by). That's one of my absolute favourite games which I have sunken a lot of time into though. I only played the tutorial missions, so need to give it a longer play through and get into multiplayer.

Wipeout VR was a nice enough experience, but not sure what longevity I will get out of it. Wipeout was my first PS game back on the original console.

Skyrim was good and the scope for involvement in it is huge. I can imagine you could really get lost in this as you develop your character and spend more time in the world, so probably had most fun with this. I spent about 30 minutes trying to take out two giants with a bow and arrow, while hiding on a rock. I was surprised that some of the graphics felt so 'low res' though, and some of the textures were poor. Despite that, it's still good and I acknowledge it wasn't 'built from the ground up for VR'. I changed the default movement pretty quickly though, finding that I don't like the snap turning, which is a little immersion breaking and disorienting. Putting the game on smooth turning improved the experience hugely.

I hadn't really thought much about movement in VR before playing it but I see many games approach this in totally different ways. This is obviously something that is still being worked on across the board, as evidenced by that platform thing posted earlier. Haven't played Doom yet, but not sure I will enjoy the 'space hop'/ teleport movement (so that has held me back) and, as mentioned, not hot on the gradual/ snap turning either. Where possible, will definitely switch to smooth turning in all games.

I like the move controllers and the Aim. Where supported, they definitely help immersion. I've been sitting for all the games too and could maybe give standing up a go at some point, though it might feel a little odd! Maybe these games don't really require standing though.

Looking forward to playing it some more this weekend and will be giving Blood and Truth a go next.

So.. mixed feelings on my limited experience of PSVR thus far. Some of it has been great but, at the same time, some of it a little underwhelming. Some aspects of the system still feel like it's still early in development, but I guess that's exciting in it's own way, and harks back to the 'early adopter' point I made earlier, despite this being about for 3 years.

Got a loan of Blood and Truth, and have played the first 4 or 5 missions. Jesus it's something special. While I did get the very hard and unforgiving Crisis VRigade as I was wanting some Time Crisis action in VR, I think this is closer to Time Crisis. The details in it are fantastic, and the shooting is accurate and fun. Even the movement, which usually puts me off these games is grand in this. It does require some more polish, but it's an amazing start to what I hope is a long series. Maybe with the 3D Rudder they will be able to bring proper locomotion and add to it.

It's some of the small details which make this game so far, such as the vapes and how you actually use them. The reloading is really well done, and the gun placement is simple and genius. It takes a while to learn the 2 handed approach, but I'm finding it easy enough to get headshots with the pistols and SMG. Shotguns are fun, really hope there's a SPAS-12, or an AA12 would be amazing! The first driving mission, the dude on the bike and the car door, accidentally did it and it was beautiful! Looking forward to playing more of it tonight!

Thought this was funny.

https://twitter.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1144912476179505152

Quite new to PSVR but really enjoying it, the ideas seem endless even with relatively early versions of this technology. Been playing through Moss, Eagle Flight and Doom.

Been getting lost in Ghost Giant since yesterday. Absolutely loving it and the hand movements are a delight to use. I could nearly play a whole game with just trying to get the basketball in! The sound, music and story are all great and a nice change from Doom, which I am still getting the hang of.

Still playing through Truth and Blood, it's really a great game.

Thinking of getting Scraper: First Strike or Sairento next. But Scraper has yet to appear in the PS Store (in Canada) anyway and Sairento is almost the cost of a AAA game (but looks amazing).

It does have an ending... haven't reached it myself but I think at that point you are so zen that you'll have transcended your physical being and become one with the PSVR

Anyone play sariento on the rift or vive?
I think I bought it cheap ok viveport and just wondering how the touch controllers with thumbsricks compare to the move implementation.

Doge wrote: »

Watching PSVR Without Parole play Wolfenstein Cyberpilot live now, but its very underwhelming so far.

Yeah saw a video on it earlier and thought the same.

What PSVR games are free to play with Playstation now?

I see Bound is.

circular flexing wrote: »

Wipeout VR is free this month with PS+

Wipeout is class to be fair. It was one of the first games I had on PSVR. Felt like I was bossing it and didn't feel motion sickness at all...until I changed the camera to be locked onto the driver. First drop I went down and my stomach felt like it was upside down :D